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Favorite conditions?

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#1 ·
What's you're favoite snowboarding conditions?
Do you like corduroy with sun, powder with white out or powder with sun?

Personally ill take what I can get, but I do check conditions before I go to to the mountain.
I refuse to snowboard in slush or ice.
 
#2 ·
Living in Ohio with small vertical feet and a short and shitty season, I will ride anything because it is all I can get and I'm gonna get some! I do think being able to ride in all kinds of conditions does help with being a better overall rider (or so I tell myself when taking turns on over crowded slopes with bullet-proof ice or wet corn).

I really don't think I have a favorite condition. I do love smooth and fast groomers. Getting those first runs in the early a.m. when it is fast corduroy and the slopes are empty. I also have a blast at the end of the day when things are all chopped up and I'm just playing in the piles all the way down. Then again, I did maybe a dozen glade/powder runs when out west the last time and to say I had a perma-grin the rest of the day would be an understatement. :D
 
#17 ·
You beat me to it! Ice keeps the masses away... If there's a little ice somewhere on the hill there always seems to be less people there. Seriously though what kind of question is this? Obviously powder, the more the better, and nice bright sun so I can see everything. Kinda like my day on Saturday! :cheeky4:



 
#13 ·
I love it when its cold and slightly winding with snow that is just puking out of the clouds. Everyone goes inside and I get to have fresh tracks each and every run.

The best is those days that on your last run it lightens up for a moment and the sun comes out for your last run. Once you get to the bottom the the storm starts to re-energize and you know the next day will be powder too. :D
 
#19 ·
Personally for me I love lake effect snow! Very few places get it, nobody gets it like we do lol. Its soft, light beautiful powder. It can fall as heavy as 2 inches per hour and storms can last for days. Its all based on wind direction, speed and the continued warm temps of Lake Ontario thru the Wintertime. Because its the deepest lake in the great lakes the temps hold and based on its position we here in the northeast get this...

Ontario is not deeper than Lake Superior in average depth nor deepest point. Not that that matters in what you were trying to say about Lake Effect snow...
 
#25 ·
I saw this:

Because its the deepest lake in the great lakes the temps hold and based on its position we here in the northeast get this...
And immediatly thought this:

Ontario is not deeper than Lake Superior in average depth nor deepest point. Not that that matters in what you were trying to say about Lake Effect snow...
Although I have to agree, living in a snow belt by lakes is awesome to snowboard in, but a bitch to dig out or work in lol. That being said, my fav condition is at night during a squall, if in the day I prefer partly sunny. It's awesome that the great lakes were really warm this summer (around here anyways), which means they are less likely to ice over, which means lots of lake effect snow! YaY!
 
#31 ·
Favorite condition is powder. I don't care what the weather is doing if I'm out riding pow. In fact, some of the best times I've had is when it's puking so much that every run is refilled by the time you make it up. Nothing like fresh tracks on every run of the day. :)
 
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